Executive Director (Senior Lead Securities Python Quantitative Developer )

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Quantitative Software Engineer Executive Director (Senior Lead Securities Quantitative Analytics Specialist). A successful applicant will be a Python quantitative developer in the Investment Portfolio in Wells Fargo Securities with a focus on Juniper Vasara ALM development.

Vasara is the next generation risk platform for the bank. It is an ambitious green field initiative to tackle the banks risk computation challenges within capital markets from ticking risk for trading desks to market risk and capital calculations such as FRTB and CCAR.

Juniper Vasara is a joint venture between multiple Quant and Technology teams and you will work as an ALM quant developer focusing on specific risk management and balance sheet strategy solutions for our portfolio management partners. Juniper Vasara is a horizontal solution designed to be use case agnostic to achieve maximum consistency and re-usability.

Essential duties and responsibilities include:

• Implement ALM models and logic in Python.

• Integration of pricing and risk analytics in collaboration with other quant teams providing expertise in design and implementation issues relate to ALM.

• Effective communication and collaboration with Business Stakeholders other Quant Teams Technology Partners and Project Management

• Analyze performance propose remedial or optimization plans and ensure execution to enhance the new strategic valuation and risk platform for the securities businesses

• Consistently deliver high-quality software and documentation in an Agile SDLC

In this role you will:

• Proactively participate in complex software design & development activities within an Agile environment

• Contribute to large-scale project planning balancing short and long-term objectives

• Generate test implement and deploy ideas to improve system performance or team productivity.

• Use quantitative and technological techniques to solve complex business problems

• Meet deliverables while leveraging solid understanding of policies procedures and compliance requirements

• Collaborate and consult with peers colleagues and project managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

• Effectively communicate with and build consensus with all project stakeholders

Required Qualifications:

• 7 years of Securities Quantitative Analytics experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience training military experience education

• 7 years of professional Python 3 experience

Desired Qualifications:

• 5 years of hands-on coding experience Python and C are most relevant

• 3 years of product and market experience in various asset classes: rates foreign exchange credit and mortgages and structured products

• 3 years of quantitative analytics library software development experience in a buy-side or sell-side institution or a quant solution vendor

• 1 year hands on experience with ALM frameworks or prior experience in ALM vendor software

• Strong proficiency in Python is encouraged.

• The following items are considered bonus qualifications:

  • Understanding of advanced language features runtime behavior and performance characteristics

  • Deep understanding of CPython internals (interpreter loop memory model GIL garbage collection); experience customizing or extending the Python interpreter or standard library is a plus

  • Proven experience with Python interoperability and bindings to lower-level languages (e.g. C/C Cython pybind11 Java)

  • Hands-on experience writing high-performance GPU code using Python-based DSLs (e.g. Triton CUDA Python JAX/XLA kernels)

  • Demonstrated expertise in Python performance optimization across CPU architectures using tools such as Numba Cython vectorization and profiling techniques

  • Experience designing and developing large-scale distributed high-performance Python systems in production

  • Strong understanding of multithreading and multiprocessing in Python including practical strategies for working with or around the GIL in real-world production environments

  • Experience operating Python systems under strict latency throughput or reliability constraints (e.g. low-latency trading systems ML inference serving large-scale data pipelines)

• Experience interpreting and solutioning for risk

• Masters degree or higher in computer science or finance/mathematics

• Experience in software development cycle and agile technologies e.g. Git Jira Confluence

• Experience in or passionate about Agentic AI

• Excellent verbal written and interpersonal communication skills

Job Expectations:

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time

• This position is eligible for Visa sponsorship

• Must be able to work on-site

Posting Locations:

150 E 42nd St. New York NY 10017

550 S Tyron Charlotte NC

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status as a protected veteran or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit Market Financial Crimes Operational Regulatory Compliance) which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring governance risk identification and escalation as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business units risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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